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Date:      Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:39:11 +0700
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject:   Re: No DRM kernel support for i830 ?
Message-ID:  <20040812023911.GB89594@regency.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200408111220.11512.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20040811110731.GA74988@regency.nsu.ru> <200408111220.11512.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:20:11PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 August 2004 07:07 am, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Judging from /sys/dev/drm/ contents, and listed kernel options in NOTES,
> > there's currently evidence of support for i810/830 chips in FreeBSD,
> > which (I suspect) is the probable reason why DRI is not enabled on my
> > box (FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT from yesterday, latest X.Org).  I also found
> > traces of i810/830 support in FDo CVS
> > (http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/dri/drm/bsd/i830/),
> > getting me to the fact that i8x0 files were removed from the BSD side,
> > since they were not actually ported.  (Unfinished? broken? unstable?)
> 
> The i830 DRM stuff is ported in a branch of DRI, but it's not in DRI head 
> because of a security problem with the code.

Thanks.  That's a good info to start with.  May I ask you the details of
security problem you've mentioned, or at least some pointer in this
direction?  Appropriate maillist and/or google reference would be fine,
I guess.

./danfe



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